All Quotes by Anna Letitia Barbauld
“The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.”
“Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew,They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the heart.”
“I read his awful name, emblazon'd highWith golden letters on th' illumin'd sky.”
“Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?”
“Life! we've been long togetherBid me "Good-morning."”
“Come calm content serene and sweet,To find thy hermit cell.”
“OH! hear a pensive captive's prayer,Against the prisoner's cries.”
“If e'er thy breast with freedom glow'd,A free-born mouse detain.”
“The chearful light, the vital air,The common gifts of heaven.”
“The well-taught philosophic mind And feels for all that lives.”
“So when unseen destruction lurks, And break the hidden snare.”
“Man is the nobler growth our realms supply,And souls are ripened in our northern sky.”
“This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.”
“It is to hope, though hope were lost.”
“So fades a summer cloud away;So dies a wave along the shore.”
“When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!”